Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
There is a brilliant and touching preface by Francisco Goldman that I highly recommend. The book itself, however, is dull. Returning to Pinochet's Chile to produce a clandestine film about the horrors of the dictatorship. the narrator, Miguel Littín, is horrified to learn that Pinochet's Chile (in 1985) was essentially calm (if slightly bullied) and prosperous modern country -- even during the State of Siege.Having been in Spain during the Franco years, I can attest that the presence of the Guardia Civile were was merely like an unnoticed backdrop -- no different that what one would find in a modern American city today, except that they wore funny hats and carried those funny little machine guns.
Violeta Parra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcaSPaW6YdY&feature=fvst
Here - on a rec. from a friend is another version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOJ-A5iv5I